Re: [PATCH] vfs: handle __wait_on_freeing_inode() and evict() race

[Christian Brauner]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2024 17:18:37 +0200, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> Lockless hash lookup can find and lock the inode after it gets the
> I_FREEING flag set, at which point it blocks waiting for teardown in
> evict() to finish.
> 
> However, the flag is still set even after evict() wakes up all waiters.
> 
> This results in a race where if the inode lock is taken late enough, it
> can happen after both hash removal and wakeups, meaning there is nobody
> to wake the racing thread up.
> 
> [...]

Thanks for that and the concise explanation!

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Applied to the vfs.fixes branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.fixes branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.fixes

[1/1] vfs: handle __wait_on_freeing_inode() and evict() race
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/3ba35ec4b0ed